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TIL FEMA has a Waffle House Index to measure storm damage

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JYMK8 TIL Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, devised a WWII plan to plant false info about the Allies’ next attack on a dead man, drift him at sea, and hope he’d be found by Nazi sympathizers. Operation Mincemeat worked, turning the tide for the Allies, who stormed Italy while the Nazis defended Greece.
Oo41 TIL that Uber-Facts takes a majority of their posts from r/TodayILearned
jpwp TIL when 11y/o Timothy King disappeared during the Oakland County Child killings, his mother made a public plea for the killer to release him, so she could serve his favorite meal, KFC. When his body was found, postmortem showed the last thing he ate was fried chicken.
KOaDB TIL that those bibles that you find in the bedside table's drawer in hotels are actually placed in there by a group called Gideons International and usually not by the hotel itself.
xpY0 TIL that a Flettner Airplane flies without wings: instead, it has cylinders that spin which, using the same physics as throwing a curveball, “curves” the vehicle upwards into the air!